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Show Granite Arts Association Opens Concert Season With Variety of Artists Opera Gala j Slated to appear for the first ( time before Utah audiences the, dePaur Opera Gala, composed ofj 55 Negro singers and musicians) presents a widely-acclaimed con-i cert of experts from "Carmen: Jones," "Porgy and Bess" and other Melodic operas. Formed by Leonard dePaur from the highly renowned dePaur Infantry Chorus, the opera has been receiving rave since its inception. in-ception. Its soloists include Lawrence Winters, Inez Matthews and Luther Lu-ther Saxon. Grant Johannessen, who returns to Utah for his appearance with the Utah Symphony in a Granite Arts concert, has performed with almost all the major orchestras throughout the U.S., Europe, and South America. World Acclaim The young Utah pianist has also won world acclaim for his concert con-cert appearances on three continents. conti-nents. The Robert Joffrey Theatre Ballet, Bal-let, formed in 1956, features versatile ver-satile young stars Beatrice Tomp-kins Tomp-kins Gerald Arpino, Dianne Con-soer, Con-soer, Glen Tetley, Brunilda Ruiz, John Wilson, Francoise Martinet, j and Helnka Devon in a ballet whose unique and brilliant choreography choreo-graphy has been acclaimed both in Europe and the United States. 1 Its gifted director, Robert Jof-fery, Jof-fery, has received honors for his', choreographic talents. j Patrons of the Granite Arts Association As-sociation this season will enjoy one of the most widely-varied concert con-cert seasons ever planned for Utah Ut-ah audiences, according to Del-bert Del-bert Smedley, representative of the Association, in an announcement announce-ment to the South East Independent. Indepen-dent. Opening the entire Utah concert season this year with its first scheduled attraction Sept. 25, the Granite association will present five top attractions that have been chosen from five different cultural cultur-al fields. The beginning concert of the season Sept. 25 will feature a performance per-formance by the entire United States Navy Band. On Nov. 14. date fot the second Granite concert, con-cert, famed balladeers Marais and Miranda will present their program pro-gram of international fook songs. Utah Symphony Third concert for the Granite season will feature the Utah Symphony Sym-phony Orchestra, with Utah's own (Sensational pianist, urant jonan-nessen, jonan-nessen, in a Jan. 9 concert. Feb. 21 will mark the appearance appear-ance of the famed Negro singing troupe, the dePaur Opera Gala. Concluding the Granite Arts season sea-son for 1957-5S will be the skilled and beautiful young artists of the Joffery Ballet, who have been signed .for a March 6 concert. In an announcement of the coming co-ming Granite Arts season made to South East Independent, representative repre-sentative Delbert Smedley said each of the 1957-5S season, concerts con-certs will be presented at the Granite High School auditorium, and each concert will begin at 8:15 p.m. The famous United States Navy Band, signed to open the Granite series, has toured each of the 43 states many times, and has appeared before tremendous audiences aud-iences under U.S. Presidents Coo-lidge, Coo-lidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower. One Hundred Members The band has also played in Canada, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Panama, Pa-nama, Jamaica, Haiti and the Virgin Vir-gin Islands. Today its members number approximately ap-proximately 100, each one an individual in-dividual artist capable of playing with any symphony orchestra. Its director. Commander Chas. Brendler, is the only Navy musician mu-sician other than John Phillip Sousa to attain the rank of full commander. Marais and Miranda, husband-wife husband-wife balladeer team, are known as the "international balladeers" with songs are gleaned from Europe, Eur-ope, South Africa ' and America, j African Career i Josef Marais fas born in South Africa and started his musical career as a violinist in the Cape, Town Symphony Orchestra. ! His wife. Miranda, born in Amsterdam, Am-sterdam, enjoyed a musical career car-eer as a pianist and accompanist1 before she became a singer. j She and her husband teamed up for their Town Hall debut in 1946,1 and the two have been collecting folk songs, giving concerts, mak-j ing recordings and appearing on radio and television ever since. j |